This morning, the former Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary walked to the front of her mother's Presbyterian church in nearby Newport News, which she described as ''a groovy place,'' and came to God. ''I'm very old and I just joined church today,''...

The likelihood that Attorney General Janet Reno will reject the appointment of an independent prosecutor to investigate fund-raising phone calls by President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore has created a strain between the Justice Department and...

Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about allegations that the Energy Department manipulated figures on minority contracting referred incorrectly to a spokeswoman who responded. She was Brooke Anderson, director of the Office of Public...

Hazel R. O'Leary stood proudly in front a chart depicting the Department of Energy's success in awarding contracts to minority-owned companies. Ms. O'Leary, then the Secretary of Energy, had reason to look ebullient as she appeared at a conference...

The House committee investigating possible campaign finance abuses has issued subpoenas linked to accusations that a businessman was pushed to contribute to a Cabinet Secretary's favorite charity to meet with her, the panel's chairman said today. ...

August 25, 1997, Monday

The price of energy is artificially depressed in this country, Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary said in an interview on the eve of her departure from office, and Americans will not be serious about conservation or energy independence until the price...

January 20, 1997, Monday

Confronting one of the most intractable problems of the post-cold-war era, the Energy Department said today that it would try to dispose of plutonium from old nuclear weapons both by using it as fuel in utilities' reactors and by mixing it with...

December 10, 1996, Tuesday

To the Editor: ''U.S. Set to Allow Reactors to Use Plutonium From Disarmed Bombs'' (front page, Nov. 22) asserts inaccurately that in considering dual paths for plutonium disposition, the United States is abandoning a longstanding policy to keep...

November 29, 1996, Friday

The Federal Government has agreed to pay $4.8 million as compensation for injecting 12 people with radioactive materials in secret cold war experiments. Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary, who announced the settlement yesterday in Manhattan, said...

With the election over, the White House got down to organizing the celebration today by naming the leaders of the team that will plan President Clinton's second inauguration and promising to limit individual and corporate contributions for the event...